The purpose of the Law Enforcement Protection Fund Act is to provide for the equitable distribution of money to state police, municipal police, university police, tribal police, county sheriff's and school district police departments for use in the maintenance and improvement of those departments in order to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of law enforcement services and to sustain at a reasonable level the payments available to the surviving eligible family members of a peace officer killed in the line of duty.History: Laws 1983, ch. 289, § 2; 1993, ch. 179, § 3; 1998, ch. 83, § 1; 2002, ch. 78, § 4; 2020, ch. 67, § 2. ANNOTATIONSThe 2020 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, added state police and school district police to the departments that receive distributions from the law enforcement protection fund; and after 'distribution of money to', added 'state police' and after 'county sheriff's', added 'and school district police'. The 2002 amendment, effective May 15, 2002, inserted 'and to sustain at a reasonable level the payments available to the surviving eligible family members of a peace officer killed in the line of duty' at the end of the section. May 15, 2002, inserted 'and to sustain at a reasonable level the payments available to the surviving eligible family members of a peace officer killed in the line of duty' at the end of the section. The 1998 amendment, effective March 9, 1998, substituted 'police, university police' for 'and' near the middle of the section. The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, substituted 'money' for 'funds' and substituted 'tribal police and county sheriff's departments' for 'county police and sheriff departments'.
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